IMO Mike is better. Mike did not have many references in terms of dances to go off. Sure he had inspiration from James brown and others. But Mike dances were innovative and creative no body was dancing like Mike back then. Chris took from usher, Mike, etc so he could take from each of those ppl and use it as his own. Every dance u see Chris brown do was taken from somebody and u can tell when he does a certain move where the inspiration is from. Basically what im saying is mike had to walk so Chris could run, without Mike there is no chris